9 May
2024
9 May
'24
12:24 p.m.
Mike
I was thinking operating systems and the early launch version IBM PC, but
yes once the hardware caught up Turbo Pascal was a popular program now that
I think about it. So I guess the PC versions just needed more horsepower
and some useful libraries. But Pascal never matched C
Bill
On Thu, May 9, 2024, 8:08 AM Mike Loewen via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, 9 May 2024, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Without doing the research before asking, there
was the UCSD p-System
Pascal for IBM PC which came out very early in the history of the IBM PC.
It was not very popular. The SAGE II that had native Pascal (68000) was
not a popular machine. Waterloo Pascal on the SuperPet....Pascal never
really made it on the microcomputer platform did it?
I can't quote numbers, but Borland's Turbo Pascal was quite popular on
both
CP/M machines and IBM PC and clones.
Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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